Salmon Fishing Reports & News

Overnight rain brought the river up 2″ but it is still only at 1ft on the SRT gauage – typical May fly height. Although not many fish were seen a number of sealiced fish were caught including Virginia Webb’s  8lb … Continued

The Farmleigh Fishery has fishing available for the 2012 season. For further information contact Carmel Gormley on 087 2539474

We understand that there are a small number of rods available on prime water below Bunclody. If any other Fishery has rods available we would be happy to put it up on the site.

With just 9 days to go the opening of the river the Trust is awaiting confirmation from clubs and fishery owners as to the availability of rods and Day tickets. As soon as we know the Fishing section of the … Continued

The 2010 Salmon and Sea Trout Catch Statistics have just been released and show that  a total of 441 sea trout (over 40cms) were reported landed on the Slaney – 20% of the national Rod and line catch. Intuitively the number … Continued

The seatrout fishing has slowed down considerably as you would expect given the fact the trout have been in the pools for several weeks now. As far as salmon go there have been no widespread reports of grilse in the … Continued

Sea trout fishing on the upper river remains productive. No sign of a run of grilse at present. See 13 July Report

Salmon fishing now very slow but there are reports of good seatrout fishing. See 6 July Report.

The 3 foot flood at the weekend has resulted in good salmon fishing for the time of year with, on the basis of limited reports, at least 12 fish landed for the week. The fish were well spread throught the river. Excellent … Continued